Alabama Juocs cutting baseball.
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Sad..
Can understand taking the California approach and offer no scholarship $...but a total cut is pretty drastic and a ominius trend. Gotta' wonder what role politics took.
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Sad..
Can understand taking the California approach and offer no scholarship $...but a total cut is pretty drastic and a ominius trend. Gotta' wonder what role politics took.
44.
O44,
The VCCCD is considering having 1 sport for each of the 3 schools. i.e. baseball might be at Ventura and draw from Ventura, Oxnard and Moorpark. Hard to believe the other schools in the conference would put up with that and the end result would probably be cutting the sport.
The VCCCD is considering having 1 sport for each of the 3 schools. i.e. baseball might be at Ventura and draw from Ventura, Oxnard and Moorpark. Hard to believe the other schools in the conference would put up with that and the end result would probably be cutting the sport.
And what really is funny( or stinky!) is my son had just received a call from one of the schools the week before they found out about the cuts. He was really interested in them too. Thankfully, he has some other offers to consider, but we know of 3 players who are either playing this year or are/were committed to the school next year and now have to go find another school.
We received a call from a dad of a freshman pitcher the day the coach met with the team at his son's school. That is just incredibly sad! His son got more out of his 5'9" body than most kids 6 or 8" taller. I've never seen a kid grow several inches during the walk from the bullpen to the mound like his son does every time he plays. He's GOT GAME and I hope he and all the other players get the opportunity to continue playing on a college field somewhere. But, I don't want his son to play against my son! LOL.
quote:Originally posted by CADad:
O44,
The VCCCD is considering having 1 sport for each of the 3 schools. i.e. baseball might be at Ventura and draw from Ventura, Oxnard and Moorpark. Hard to believe the other schools in the conference would put up with that and the end result would probably be cutting the sport.
WOW, another sad thought. While I understand the economics, I can make a case The baseball programs at CA JC's are already underfunded as it is...I know persoannly that we did enough fundraising projects that I have to figure that it is possible, maybe not probable or practical, but possible to restructure the programs and shifting the funding to a greater contribution basis. We all know that sports are a big part of the JC experience.
Second, I find it interesting, in light of this information, that I talked to one of the founders of the succcessful UCSB Club program recently and he was pretty sure that the unversity was going to fund THAT program sometime in the near future.
Third, I have been hearing a CA JC advertsing campaign recruit more students, astounding when you think that they are talking doom and gloom, cutting tons of classes and baseball.
Interesting disconnect. Might it be a "CAL situation"?..A Scapegoat? Where it is politically correct to cut sports, making the more facist academics happy before the academic cuts, and seeing if they can push a popular program to fund itself...simply beacsue they can. A case can be made that at CAL that they set an unreachable figure...then where stunned when the baseball people made that figure.
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